Gidon Kremer at Prague Spring: political consciousness and superb musicianship

By Frank Kuznik, 19 May 2014

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Reviewed at Rudolfinum: Dvořák Hall, Prague on 16 May 2014

Fišer, Crux for violin and percussion

Maskats, Midnight in Riga (Czech premiere)

Bernstein, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"

Shchedrin, Carmen Suite

Gidon Kremer, Violin

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor

Kremerata Baltica

Two to tango: Gidon Kremer celebrates Piazzolla in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 22nd November

With superb support from Kremerata Baltica and a smart set of soloists, Gidon Kremer continues a love affair that began 25 years ago.

*****

From tangos to Viennese cafés at Hamburg's Martha Argerich Festival

Linda Holt, 25th June

Piazzolla rubs shoulders with Lanner and Kreisler at the Martha Argerich Music Festival in Hamburg's Laeiszhalle.

****1

Ghostly remembrances: Weinberg championed in Birmingham

Mark Pullinger, 24th November

Nearly a century after his birth, Weinberg's final completed symphony is given its UK premiere by the CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

****1

Bach goes Baltic: Kremerata Baltica at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 12th November

An intriguing combination of three contemporary Baltic composers matched against Bach, delivered with consummate musicianship by Kremerata Baltica.

*****

Revivir la leyenda: Martha Argerich y la Kremerata Baltica

Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 26th November

Un concierto magistral, de altos vuelos, gracias a intérpretes excepcionales, Martha Argerich y la Kremerata Baltica, además de un programa interesante y equilibrado.

*****

Dépouillement et vérité chez Arvo Pärt, avec Gidon Kremer et la Kremerata Baltica à la Fondation Louis Vuitton

Manuel Gaulhiac, 31st March

Avec Fratres et Tabula Rasa, c’est un nouveau chemin qui s’ouvre à la musique. Mais plus qu’un chemin de la nouveauté, c’est le chemin d’un retour à une certaine forme de pureté de l’inspiration, qui passe dans l’écriture et la réalisation par une économie de moyens.

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.